Lucio Colletti

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Lucio Colletti (December 8, 1924, Rome&ndash;November 3, 2001, Venturina, Campiglia Marittima, Province of Livorno) was one of the most important Italian philosophers of the twentieth century, and one of a select few to be known also outside Italy. Colletti started to be known outside Italy because of a long interview that Marxist historian Perry Anderson published in the New Left Review in 1974.

Colletti changed very often his political beliefs and abandoned many of his early Marxist beliefs. Colletti joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1949 and emerged as an important cultural party figure. In the 1970s he was among the supporters of Socialist leader Bettino Craxi. From 1996 until his death he was elected in the list of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi's rightwing political party, in the Italian parliament.